The provenance of coarse-grained turbidite sandstones in the Kırkgeçit Formation(western part of the Elazığ Basin-east Turkey)

Modal analysis of sandstones for conglomerate rich marine basins is useful investigating the provenance types surrounded by plate tectonics. Different kinds siliciclastic rocks are important indicators defining paleogeography and geotectonic conditions sedimentary basin analysis. This paper, which focuses on petrography turbidite systems, one rarest studies characteristics in scientific literature. In this context, study was carried out western part Elazığ Basin. The Middle Eocene?Oligocene infill called Kırkgeçit Formation characterised submarine channel deposits coarse-grained sandstones. Petrographically, composed litharenite rarely feldspathic litharenite, lithic arkose rock fragments. Mostly components derived from volcanic plutonic Magmatites. Fossils fossil fragments transported shallow metamorphic fragments, observed sandstone samples, recrystallized limestones Keban Metamorphites northern basin. petrographic analyses indicated that channels sediments were plotted mostly to recycled orogenic undissected arc type source rocks. Therefore, has been reflected as a back-arc deposit during Middle- Upper Eocene. evolution Basin also supported remark.